Do’s and Don’ts of Cleaning Old Cabbage Patch Dolls If you’re anything like me, visiting local thrift stores on the hunt for neglected dolls to rescue is a thrilling treat. When you find some old beauties sorely in need of a spa treatment for just a…

How To Make Scrappy DIY Fingerless Gloves and Arm Warmers In Less Than An Hour! It started getting chilly around here in Western North Carolina (and elsewhere) and I decided it was time to fashion some scrappy DIY fingerless gloves and arm-warmers from some pieces…

A Cabbage Patch Angel Tutorial Who doesn’t love an angel doll at Christmas time? When I was a little girl my mother would make an angel doll for the top of the tree each year. I watched as she cut little bits of cardboard into wings and…

Yay for Buffy The Vampire Slayer! Oh my goodness, I had SO MUCH FUN creating this cutie. I’d never made a Buffy The Vampire Slayer doll before so it was a challenge! I’ve personally never watched a Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie or TV show. I…

How To Straighten Doll Hair – My Step-By-Step Tutorial A kind Cabbage Patch doll collector donated several “TLC Cabbies” for the LoveAgain Doll Project. One of them had really, really, really REALLY curly, silky hair. It’s called Cornsilk hair and a number of Cabbage Patch…

Hi there (drum roll please)! Today we’re going to make not one but TWO pairs of DIY 18 inch doll panties from the leftover feet that we cut off, remember? This is a continuation of a previous blog I did where I talked about how…

Make These No-Cost DIY Leg Warmers in 10 Minutes FLAT! How To Make DIY Leg Warmers From Too-Small Tights Warm tights are a big favorite in our house. Winters can get mighty chilly up here in the Western North Carolina mountains and us girls like to keep…

If you’re a Vibrant Crafter then you know that there’s no such thing as too many free doll clothes patterns in the world! In our endless quest to use up our fabric scrap pile before we die we can make the neatest clothing for our…

Try This Cabbage Patch Doll Mermaid Makeover One of my big weaknesses is the ever lovable Cabbage Patch dolls. What, oh what, possesses a grown woman to love playing with dolls? I don’t know, but if I can’t play with dolls I don’t want to be…

Who could resist a Cabbage Patch Mermaid? Me neither. Which is why I created this easy sewing pattern for (roughly) 18″ Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. You can use an old top of many colors – or a little girl’s dress that has stains/rips/size issues. Then chop…

Hi, I’m Mandy Wildman!

Greetings! I'm obsessed with upcycling ugly clothes and transforming them into fabulously colorful, one-of-a-kind garments for women of all sizes.
I also love to rescue discarded dolls and make them pretty again. Let's save this planet together, one "uploved" project at a time, shall we?

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